DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harvest Moon or any of it's characters.

This is a little teaser(prologue) for a new series I'm going to be writing along with my other fanfictions. It stars the Clinic's Elli in a tangled up confusion of romance that is rather unpredictable. This is hopefully going to be a high tension romance fanfiction that is pushes many villagers into ways far from the norm. I have many ideas for this fanfiction, and I can't wait to put them in writing. Depending on the time and motivation I have to write the first chapter to 'The Unpredictable' should be up within the few weeks.

Enjoy (:

Prologue

Good old Mineral Town.

I guess you can call us old fashioned, a demoted old town and well not one of us could argue to correct you or try to prove you wrong. Because well, that's exactly without a doubt what this town and the people in it are.

Once you are born in Mineral Town, you rarely leave. Even rarer do we get new comers either. We move in this constant cycle, without questioning where we'll end up or what we are here to do. It's been this way for years and years before me and the rest of the villagers occupying this town.

It's rather simple you see, you take on the job of your Grandparents who took on the job of their ancestors, and your kid will take on that of your job it's just how it works no questions are to be asked. You can look at anyone in this town for an example. Take Ann she'll run the Inn after Doug; Gray will be a Blacksmith long after Saibara is gone and Karen will work the Supermarket and so on just as their all their ancestors did before them. It's not a question or expectation on how it works it just is, and it's as simple and easy as that.

I can recite exactly where each resident in this town will be depending on the time of day, day of week or the season. And it isn't 'irregular' or 'stalkerish' at all, because well that's how it works in a small town of old tradition.

We grow accustomed to our old ways, knowing exactly when our day starts and when it will end. It can pretty much go without saying that any little piece of news that strays from the day to day ways of Mineral Town life is always big deal. Whether it be big news like a newborn child to the smallest most insignificant news such as Popuri almost losing a chicken when she looked the other way.

The old brick paths that weave their way through our little town are in three neat lines meeting at the ends to be followed through to a complete circle. It is not questioned how the bricks were laid or why they form to meet at the end of the day, it just is. Their never changing roots have been as such since the dawn of time, and that's good enough for us.

I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that Mineral Town the small old town of tradition and inheritance is as predictable as the roots that the town survives on. Which brings me here, now on the beach. A trip to the beach which has made its way into something that is anything but predictable. Though I've gone to the beach many times before in my life, this one particular visit is anything but ordinary.

My name is Elli, I work at the Clinic and as far as my life in Mineral Town I'm no more predictable than any other citizen in this Town. Everyday, besides Wednesdays when the Cinic is closed I work a full shift at the Clinic. I only knew my parents for a short time before they passed away, leaving my younger brother Stu and I to our Grandmother. There was a time I suppose when together we were Grandma's own responsibility, though after her legs were passed with an unknown disease her time caring for herself instead of us grew greater.

I never blamed her for what was not her fault she did after all do everything possible to provide for Stu and I. Though now I watch over Stu, and take care of Grandma, it's not at all a surprise I've gone into the medical field. I want to do everything and anything in my power to find a cure for my Grandmother.

I suppose that being said I've easily gained the title of the sweet, kind and hardworking nurse at the local Clinic. But along with that title there comes many things you'd never expect me to be doing. And along that list of what I'd never do is the very thing I was doing right here and now at the beach.

It was early summer not the beginning but not quite to mid-summer either. It was late well past ten which sets of another non-Elli alert, what in the world was I doing out past eight? Well I'll tell you what, I'm snuggled up out on the pier that over looks the beautiful view of the ocean, around me is the warm well muscled, tan beach bum Kai. And if I told you it was the well and easy innocence of two friends sitting on the pier together it'd be a lie. His arms are wrapped around my body, his head titled down toward me evenly meeting my slightly titled up face. Our lips are pressed firmly together, working in ways not I in my wildest dreams could have thought.

And all above this warm dizziness of my thoughts, and the warm wonderful pleasure I'm feeling just to be here right now with him is one question, how? How did this summer rivalry end up here in this way? No one in the ever turning circle of Mineral Town would ever, ever think I'd end up here. And although this probably wasn't the most acceptable thing or most approved for a young woman to go out in the middle of the night and start making out with a boy, why could I not regret it? Why couldn't I break away from him know how clearly messed up and wrong this was and walk away from this whole situation entirely? It sure would save me a lot of time and ease just to give up now, and yet somehow in so bizarre way... I couldn't. I just couldn't. Because no matter how much I didn't want the truth to end up this way, or even to have the very truth written right out so clearly in my head I knew it was true. I Elli had fallen deeply, tragically and, madly in love with Kai, and I don't know how I could have even possibly fallen harder.

I guess you're probably as curious and frankly confused as I am, so to fully explain or atleast try to explain I suppose I'm going to have to go back quite some time from some this moment here on the beach. Back to the last week of Spring when things were still making sense…

What did you think?
How do you think this will affect Elli's life in Mineral Town?
How will this affect others life in Mineral Town, like Popuri's?
How do you think their relationship got to this, or how will in end?
Please review with your guesses and ideas! I value each one you post more than you could image! If you tell me you enjoyed this small little prolouge there is no telling how much faster the story will progress.

So thank you for reading and be sure to tell me what you think! (: